[Ubuntu-AE] Long but interesting read

[Akshay Lamba]

Oh and there are 19 non-digest members and 7 digest members in this list. So a total of 26 members...not bad!! 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sofian Rahmani" <sofiankrt at gmail.com> 
To: "Ubuntu UAE Mailing List" <ubuntu-ae at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2008 4:43:07 PM (GMT+0400) Asia/Muscat 
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-AE] Long but interesting read 

Wow, that was quick! 3 replies in half an hour! 
How many people are in this mailing list? 
Hmm... I might be able to organize something at the Cultural Foundation. I have many friends there! Perhaps we might bring some Ubuntu CD's and give them out? Even a lecture, perhaps? I'm going there today actually. How many people do you expect will show up? 


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Brad Campbell < brad at wasp.net.au > wrote: 



Akshay Lamba wrote: 
> Hi Sofian, 
> 
> Welcome to ubuntu! There are quite a few users in UAE that I'm aware off 
> though dont have any indicative numbers. I've surely seen much more 
> server based implementations than desktop implementations of linux, but 
> looks like we're getting there slow and steady. 
> 
> There is a LUG (Linux User Group) also in Dubai, they do meet off and 
> on, though I don't think they've met in quite a while. If there's enough 
> numbers on this list and a volunteer to help set something up then we 
> can surely give it a shot. I'm happy to volunteer my home @ arabian 
> ranches as a venue. 

We used to meet monthly, but as most of the meets involved a bar, beer or a pakistani restaurant 
there used to be between 5 and me as the usual turn out. Great fun when it happened though. 

I'd be happy to get together for a monthly meet somewhere, it's usually a laugh at worst and 
educational at best. 

Oh, and I'm relatively new to Ubuntu, having my first install being 6.06LTS when it was released, 
but I've been using Debian for a few years now. I use Ubuntu exclusively on my Laptop (6.06LTS 
heavily patched) - Desktop (7.10 Dual boot with MacOS but very rarely in MacOS) - Spare Laptop 
(8.04) - Co-Lo Servers (6.06 LTS-Server). Other machines around the house all run Debian (Servers, 
NAS, TV, Stereo) and a few mix and match variants of Familiar, Angstrom and dd-wrt (3 iPAQ, Linksys 
WRT54GL and Buffalo WHR-G54S). 

I do have an iPAQ that runs windows, though I only use it as a bootloader for Linux with HaRET, and 
my TV box boots into DOS 6.2 on a USB keystick to run loadlin and load linux. 

I do have a Windows install in Virtualbox on my Desktop that I use for Microcontroller fiddling and 
AutoCAD as required. 

Now I've typed that all out, it's pretty scary really! 

I do actually own a device that has it's original OS on it (actually 3).. My Treo(s) 680 still runs 
PalmOS.. but it's only a matter of time I tell you! 

Brad 
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